Today in History - Feb. 22--Today in History for Feb. 22:On this date:In 1630, colonists in America got their first taste of popcorn.In 1732, George Washington, the first president of the United States, was born. He died in 1799.In 1819, Spain ceded Florida to the United States.In...
Alpino Bagnolini surfaced in the Atlantic Ocean at 1430 hours for radio communications. At 1630 hours, four explosions were heard to the port side, followed by four explosion on the starboard side. Submerging, her crew would soon realize that the intended target was another submarine, and the...
For the English colonists who settled along the banks of the Connecticut River in the 1630s, life in the “New World” was anything but easy. In addition to the challenges to food security caused by the unrelentingly harsh winters of the so-called Little Ice Age, the colonists’ relations ...
The aim of Charles I’s foreign policy was to restore his nephew’s lands in the Rhineland. France, he thought, was the key to success. Fraser Dickinson | Published in History Today Volume 72 Issue 1 January 2022 Charles I and Henrietta Maria, by Daniel Mytens, c.1630-32. Royal ...
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and preaches the gratifying sense of fulfillment derived through acts of volunteerism. The word ‘Volunteer,’ derived from the late 16th-century French ‘volontaire,’ meaning ‘voluntary,’ was associated with the military: “one who offers himself for military service.” In the 1630s it began...
In 1630, the WIC conquered the Portuguese-controlled sugar plantation area of Brazil, Pernambuco. In order to keep the plantations running profitably, the Dutch needed slaves. Between 1637 and 1641, the Dutch conquered the Portuguese slave markets of Elmina Castle, São Tomé and Luanda in ...
It was later in 1630, the orange-white-blue flag was changed. The orange was changed into red because orange dye could fade out after some time on the sea or it was also due to the confusion of red and orange that cannot be distinguished on the high seas. After the change, the new...
By 1630 nearly a thousand immigrants had landed on the shores of Boston Harbor in Massachusetts Bay. The Joneses, and Smiths, and Browns, yes, and the Kellys and the Moskowitzes and the Pulaskis. Where to begin? The easiest spot is the date and location: the Pilgrims arrived in North Am...
This was Henrietta Maria of France, who married Charles I in 1630. The secret of ice cream preparation was brought to England by her cook. Soon, ice cream spread all over the world, including the U.S. The first wholesale factory for ice cream was in Baltimore. The real development of...